All right, I managed to resolve the issue by creating a new user(gave the user full admin permissions) and by doing chown + chmod.
A big thanks goes to the fine folks at #ubuntuforums-beginners for helping me pull through. According to Shirish, a friend of mine, attaching my ./gnome and ./gnome2 directories might prove useful so here they are in .tar.bz2 format. ** Attachment added: "lucifiel_.gnome.tar.bz2" http://librarian.launchpad.net/7384528/lucifiel_.gnome.tar.bz2 -- nautilus/bonobo problem after X server restart in feisty https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/104521 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs